jaaake
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- Comment on You have to stop doing this. 2 weeks ago:
The X-Ray shows 5
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 5 weeks ago:
Not in rich world.
In rich world there is a title difference between property owner and roommate. These are not equals, but a superior and subservient class.
A property owner provides housing and charges the roommate money and/or labor for the privilege of living on the property. Why take on a roommate if free labor is available?
- Comment on Is this true? 5 weeks ago:
The benefit is the experience. The difference in experiences comes down to the level design. Are you in a maze or in a field?
The best game designs masks this in both scenarios.
The well designed linear game doesn’t always feel like a maze, and has sections that feel like fields between mazes.
The well designed open world game contains mazes that you discover in a field that feels roped off into clearly defined sections that differ from each other and contain large landmarks to orient and draw you in.
Both feel bad if they don’t include (at least the illusion of) the other. A linear game is boring without any choice. An open world game is boring without linear moments.
- Comment on This seems like a bad long-term strategy 1 month ago:
Irresponsible companies are the result of irresponsible consumers.
The fuck does this mean? I can promise you that there are plenty of terrible decisions that have been made that have nothing to do with consumers and everything to do with shareholder value.
- Comment on Bring it back 1 month ago:
Not trolling, just ignorant on most related sciences.
Honestly, that much continental drift (Pangea to modern geography) seems so unbelievable to me. For some reason it’s easier to wrap my head around the globe expanding from a roughly Pangea sized sphere and the cracks between the continental shelves filling with water as the sphere got bigger.
I feel like to someone who is familiar with this science, this probably sounds like me saying “Yeah, but a flat earth just makes more sense.”
- Comment on Bring it back 1 month ago:
Every time I see Pangea, I have so same thought. Before I say it, I should preface that I know nothing about plate tectonics or geology or planetary physics or any other related science.
Are we sure that’s how it was? I mean the whole one continent and the rest of the globe is ocean. Is there a chance that in addition to the super continent, the planet was also way smaller? Like maybe that continent wrapped around the majority of a smaller sphere instead of just one clump on one side of the current size of the sphere.
- Comment on "Don't unionize, just get a better job." When you unionize, you ARE getting a better job. 1 month ago:
I assume the “we were late to lunch” and “we wrapped late” means “the people running things were behind schedule, which required us to stay longer”
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 1 month ago:
This is default in most modern games.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 1 month ago:
I once signed an apartment rental agreement that had a waterbed addendum, specifically banning their usage.
- Comment on Bean there, done that. 2 months ago:
I appreciate it even more after watching the BTS that came out the following week.
- Comment on Bean there, done that. 2 months ago:
That episode might be my favorite of all time.
- Comment on Vegeta 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure this is photoshopped, unless they got some ink removed around her eyeliner/shadow.
- Comment on Lomg Sleeve T-Shirt 2 months ago:
Only if it was a thermal. This is nonsense poserism.
- Comment on The land before time 2 months ago:
That’s their literal business model.
- Comment on The land before time 2 months ago:
I love the association that younger generations have with paper maps is pirates. Literally everyone used maps, they had racks of them at gas stations. And yet, now they’re legendary items that only exist with Xs that mark the location of treasure.
Also, I cannot explain my excitement the first time I cut a human out of the pizza ordering pipeline. With zero regard for the employment impact, all I could think about was never getting the wrong kind of pizza (or it it going to the wrong house and never showing up) again. No longer was there a risk of being misheard or someone else making a mistake entering the order info for your address or a half sausage and onion, half pepperoni jalapeño pizza. Everyone around me thought ordering your pizza through an internet website was the nerdiest thing. Most of them didn’t know it was an option and even after my explanation, they preferred to call, wait your turn on hold, repeat your house number, spell out your street name, give a cross street and explain which half of the pizza was your parents toppings and which half was the kids. People just couldn’t believe that you could type something into a computer at your house and then a pizza would show up, without the assurance of a person’s voice confirming they’d received your order and that they will cook exactly what you requested and bring it to you.
- Comment on Resetting XBOX - Compulsion Games and Double Fine to go indie again, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs "to join new ownership" 2 months ago:
This is all MSFT spin.
The studios mentioned don’t all have enough funding to continue to be operational at their current burn rates. Those studios will be doing their own layoffs or may not survive at all.
Those studios account for under 30% of the 1600 jobs that MSFT is removing from their payroll today. As the day goes on there will be news that breaks of other studios under their banner that have layoffs which contribute to the total mentioned. It’s likely that their individual stories will be lost under this initial announcement.
- Comment on Why don't urban/suburban streets and roads use a center storm channel? 2 months ago:
During heavy rainfall, intersections would become lakes in the center, where most traffic is going straight, at higher speed than turning, and nearest to opposing traffic.
The drainage needs to go into something hollow, having a hollow space beneath the part of the road that needs to support the most weight of vehicles means needing to create more load bearing hollow spaces than would otherwise be necessary.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Whiskey will destroy this cup in tens of minutes. I’ve done science on it.
- Comment on Sonic Game Recomendation? 2 months ago:
They just released a physical Sonic Pinball game. Shockingly, it’s based on Generations.
Looks cool, though:
- Comment on What is Marvel doing? 3 months ago:
This feels like a Mandela Effect for Guardian:
- Comment on How come soccer and tennis never caught on in the states? Also why hasn't there been an NFL team vs a Soccer Team and vice versa. Just to prove which is the better sport? Details inside. 3 months ago:
what if we took both teams and put them in a third arena…
There was a Korean reality show that kind of did this:
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' showrunner says his biggest regret is not getting Shatner on the show 3 months ago:
LOW-ER DECKS! LOW-ER DECKS! LOW-ER DECKS!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I miss the days when the only things identifiable as memes required text drawn in all caps white Impact font with black outlines, over literally any image.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I have the same question. Is this how my dad feels when he sees an aftermarket part on a classic car?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
- Comment on ShitpostID: 281172951 5 months ago:
Thank you, that massively helps. Without this context it appears to be a generalization, not one specific individual.
- Comment on ShitpostID: 281172951 5 months ago:
The accuracy is the flag, uniform, and the quote.
Basically everything but the head.
The antisemetic is the payot, yarmulke, and the implication that the person is an idiot from how the face is drawn. The religious aspects of the headwear and hair styling are depictions that are specific to Judaism, not Israel. The way the head is drawn turns the entire image from a valid complaint about genocide and colonizing into a minstrel poster.
- Comment on Interesting park sculpture 5 months ago:
I think you’re thinking of Niki de Saint Phalle, who does a lot of sculpture covered in mosaic and has installations at several places in San Diego (including Balboa Park). AFAIK, she’s never done anything with this subject matter or level of realism (her stuff is usually stylized). Also, the trees in the background don’t look native to San Diego.
- Comment on It didn't always exist. But it's coming soon. 5 months ago:
I’ve still got some invites if anyone needs them.
- Comment on Did you do this at your highschool? 5 months ago:
Two car related pranks:
We lived near a mall with a giant parking lot and cars were always driving really slow while not looking where they were going. We were dumb kids who learned how to take a spill without hurting ourselves from thousands of hours practicing skate tricks. If we were walking through the parking lot and noticed that a driver hadn’t looked in our direction at all, we would roll across the hood of their car and either off the same or opposite side (never the front). People freaked the fuck out and often offered us money. We thought we were doing a public service by teaching them to pay attention by scaring the shit out of them.
We would get the biggest soda cup from 7-11 and instead of filling it with soda, we would put some rare earth magnets inside it and slap in on the roof of our car. That bitch wasn’t going anywhere. People would wave at us and try to get our attention, we’d just smile and wave back. They’d shout and point up and we’d shrug and point at our ears like we couldn’t hear them. This mostly happened at stoplights. While driving, people were usually trying to work out the physics of it not moving. We took it on the highway a few times and thought the cup would tear itself apart, but it didn’t even crack. At that speed, folks caught on real quick and we saw a few bust up laughing.